Beer Writer of the Year, Brewers Guild of New Zealand, 2013 and 2016 Shortlisted for the Best Beer Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2012 Pull up a bar stool and listen to the life story of beer in New Zealand as award-winning raconteur Michael Donaldson spins a yarn about our favourite beverage… Meticulously researched and warmly told, Beer Nation recounts the foundations of beer, details the often fraught growth of a fledgling industry, exposes the modern age of commerce and big business, and plots the rise and rise of upstart craft breweries — through numerous interviews and first-hand stories from the very personalities behind beer and brewing in New Zealand.
